3M faces class action lawsuits from dentists who say it sold defective Lava Ultimate dental crowns which had a high failure rate and seek to have their cases consolidated for pretrial proceedings in federal court.…

The fourth Fosamax trial in the United States is set to begin this week in New Jersey state court, involving a lawsuit filed by a Florida woman who alleges that she developed jaw necrosis from the popular osteoporosis drug.…

While the third Fosamax bellwether lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial next month, the federal judge presiding over the consolidated litigation has indicated that at least two more cases should be selected for early trials before the Court decides whether to remand hundreds of similar cases to courts throughout the United States for juries to decide whether the osteoporosis drug caused individual plaintiffs to suffer severe and debilitating jawbone damage, known as osteonecrosis of the jaw.…